There’s a fine line in a job interview between selling yourself and underselling yourself. If you’re too brash then you may well talk yourself out of the position. But even worse is if you’re too timid. Then you run the very real risk of talking yourself out of the job.

After all, if you don’t appear to have any confidence in yourself and your abilities, why should a prospective employer even think about hiring you?

Here are some tips on selling yourself in an interview

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We all daydream occasionally but when it seems to be your normal mode then it’s probably time to stop daydreaming so often!

Of course, you’re probably already drifting off and thinking about what it would be like to live a life where you weren’t in an almost constant dream state. But snap out of that for the next couple of minutes and check out these ideas to bring you back to a more normal state more often.

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You’ve reached that age where your youthfulness has gone but you’re not a pensioner. And you start to have a midlife crisis. All sorts of thoughts go through your mind: what you could have done but are now positively too old to do, missed opportunities, and a sense of your own mortality. This last point is often quite critical – you’re at the age when a close friend suffers from an unexpected early illness or even death.

Suddenly you find yourself reading the obituary notices and checking the ages everyone in them. You also get itchy feet and maybe feel like leaving everything behind and starting over.

Whatever the precise signs, you’ve been caught up in a midlife crisis. What can you do?

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It’s finally happened – your children have gone off to college or moved out – you’ve been secretly looking forward to getting your life back for years but suddenly you’re faced with what can only be described as empty nest syndrome. The hustle and bustle of the last umpteen years. Being a last minute cook, counsellor, janitor and taxi service rolled into one. That’s gone. So what happens next?

Just as no-one is really prepared for the arrival of their first born they’re equally unprepared for the change and upheaval when their children finally leave the safety of the family home. Sure, you’ll see them again but not on a constant basis, day in, day out.

Help to deal with empty nest syndrome

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If you’re one of those people that are constantly thinking about yourself and how you look to other people, there’s a good chance that you’re self obsessed. OK, if you’re a famous star or model then there’s an excuse for this kind of behavior but if you’re a mere mortal like the rest of us, it’s not the same.

So how can you stop your self obsession and get back to a more normal life?

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Most people fidget a bit when they’re getting bored or have been sitting in the same place too long but if it starts happening more often then it’s time to look at ways to stop fidgeting all the time.

If you’ve constantly got “itchy pants” then it’s time to do something about it!

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If you trade on the forex markets then you’ll know that your trading psychology has a tremendous effect on the results you get. Too often, you find yourself trading like a donkey. Taking revenge trades on the market, missing trades that seem blindingly obvious with the benefit of hindsight, cutting winning trades too fast. All that kind of thing.

You know what you should be doing. Your paper trades work out spectacularly. But as soon as there’s real money on the line – even if it’s a low amount – you go to pot. Your trading strategy vanishes almost as fast as your bank.

So how can you turn round your trading psychology to your advantage?

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Whilst you may think that only you know that you’re always lying through your teeth with almost every sentence you utter, truth be told your friends and colleagues will have spotted it ages ago. So it’s time to stop compulsive lying and start being someone whose word can be trusted.

Of course, that’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Chances are that you’ve woven lots of webs of deception and you’re either going to have to go cold turkey and come clean about them or – maybe even more difficult – unravel them over the coming weeks and months.

Whichever way you choose, here are some tips to help stop compulsive lying:

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OK, so you want to be a winner but you seem to be forever being thwarted in this quest. Winning is a process – if you’re not following all the steps that lead there, you’re severely reducing your chances of being a winner in whatever field you choose.

Take a look at these steps to developing a winning mindset and – more importantly – start taking steps towards them every single day. It’s reckoned that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice to become a top professional in whatever field you choose. You won’t get there by just thinking about it (sorry!) – you’ll need to practice. And that’s a big part of having a winning mindset.

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OK, insecurity in a relationship isn’t unusual but that doesn’t stop you worrying about it and feeling as though you’re the only person in the world that could possibly be affected.

There are all sorts of things that can lead up to feelings of insecurity: maybe your partner doesn’t seem to understand you, maybe they hang out with their friends just that bit too often or whatever else is causing those nagging doubts to form in your mind.

So what can you do to overcome insecurity in a relationship?

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